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ENVIRONMENT CONTROL

BASF PRESENTS ROADMAP TO CLIMATE

NEUTRALITY

BASF is setting itself even more up to 1€ billion by 2025 to reach its new transformation now. We must first
ambitious goals on its journey to climate climate target and a further 2€ billion concentrate on the initial steps of this
neutrality and wants to achieve net zero to 3€ billion by 2030. journey, not the final ones. That is why
emissions by 2050. Based on the most In 2018, BASF Group’s worldwide BASF will increase its use of renewable
recent progress in developing low- emissions amounted to 21.9 million energies. And we will accelerate the
emission and CO-2free technologies, metric tons of CO2 equivalents. In development and deployment of new
the company is also significantly 1990, this figure was roughly twice as CO-2free processes for the production
raising its medium-term 2030 target high. The new 2030 emissions goal of chemicals. With transparency
for reductions in greenhouse gas represents a reduction of approximately and offerings to systematically and
emissions: BASF now wants to reduce its 60 percent compared to 1990 levels, incrementally reduce the carbon
greenhouse gas emissions worldwide which exceeds the European Union’s footprint of BASF products throughout
by 25 percent compared with 2018 – target of minus 55 percent. “The the entire value chain, we help our
and to achieve this despite targeted new climate goals underscore our customers in all industries to reduce the
growth and the construction of a large determination and BASF’s commitment carbon footprint of their own products,”
Verbund site in South China. Excluding to the Paris Climate Agreement. Climate said Dr. Martin Brudermüller, Chairman
the effects of the planned growth, this change is the greatest challenge of the of the Board of Executive Directors of
means cutting CO2 emissions in half in 21st century. In response, we must BASF SE.
the current business by the end of this adapt our processes and our product
decade. Overall, BASF plans to invest portfolio. We need to accelerate this BASF to replace
fossil fuels with new
technologies

At the heart of the long-term transition
toward net zero CO2 emissions by
2050 is the use of new technologies,
which will replace fossil fuels such
as natural gas with electricity from
renewable sources. Most of these
technologies are being pioneered by
BASF in collaboration with partners
and are currently in a pilot stage. Broad
scaleup of these technologies will only
be fully realizable after 2030. In order
to accelerate the avoidance of CO2
emissions prior to that date, BASF also
continues to systematically implement
continuous improvement processes
for existing production plants. In
addition, BASF will progressively

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